↑Daniel Tauber (August 13, 2010). "Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940)". Likud Anglos. Jabotinsky’s movement and teachings, which can be characterized as national-liberalism, form the foundation of the Likud party.

↑McGann, James G.; Johnson, Erik C. (2005). Comparative Think Tanks, Politics and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 241. The Likud Party, the party of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, is a national-liberal party, while the Labor Party, led by Shimon Peres, is more left wing and identified as social-democratic.

↑"Israel - Political Parties". GlobalSecurity.org. 2014-04-12. Retrieved 2015-01-26. The two main political parties - Likud, essentially national-liberal and Labor, essentially social-democratic - have historical roots and traditions pre-dating the establishment of the State in 1948.

↑ 4.04.1"Meet the parties - Likud". Haaretz - Israel election 2015. 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-01. A national-liberal political movement (center-right, in Israeli terms) that was established as an alliance of parties that united into a single party in 1984.

↑Amnon Rapoport (1990). Experimental Studies of Interactive Decisions. Kluwer Academic. p. 413. ISBN0792306856. Likud is a liberal-conservative party that gains much of its support from the lower and middle classes, and promotes free enterprise, nationalism, and expansionism.

↑Ethan Bronner (20 February 2009). "Netanyahu, Once Hawkish, Now Touts Pragmatism". New York Times. Likud as a party has made a major transformation in the last 15 years from being rigidly committed to retaining all the land of Israel to looking pragmatically at how to retain for Israel defensible borders in a very uncertain Middle East....

↑Baskin, Judith Reesa, ed. (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Cambridge University Press. p. 304. To overcome Labor Party dominance, the bulk of center-right parties formed Likud.... In the early twenty-first century, Likud remains a major factor in the center-right political bloc.